Archive for December, 2010

The look back at the last month of the regular season rounds out BRM’s look at the NL Central champs.

With the announcement for election into the most storied of institutions, Baseball’s Hall of Fame, coming soon, the Baseball Bloggers Alliance conducts its own vote. As a member of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance, Blog Red Machine participates in the vote. Alex, John and I all cast a separate ballot as to what BRM’s ballot submitted to the BBA would be. Majority rules if a player was not submitted on all three of our ballots. Even though that would fall short percentage-wise, we chose that route as a group. After the jump, you will see our ballot.

We enter the month of August in our review of the Reds 2010 season.

Countdown of the greatest Reds of all time #3

In our continuing review of the Reds 2010 season, we reach the month of July. If you have missed any of this series, you’re in luck. Here are the links to the other months. April 2010 May 2010 June 2010 And we look at the calendar and see that there are 91 days until the 2011 Opening Day! On to July…

Looking back at the month of June for the Cincinnati Reds.

May 2010 is today’s focus in BRM’s reliving the Reds 2010 season.

A look at the Reds next move in the offseason

BRM embarks on a review of the Reds 2010 season.

Throughout the 2010 season there were a few constants, Joey Votto would work the pitcher, the Reds would never give up and Arthur Rhodes would throw strikes. He would not only throw strikes, but he’d work the strike zone, leave runners on base and constantly stymie lefties in their quest to take down the Reds on a nightly basis. So, the question becomes, now that Rhodes is gone, who is going to fill the vacancy? A variety of staff names come to mind including Bill Bray, Aroldis Chapman and possibly, even Danny Herrera. So, if we look at this as [...]

A Christmas wish list for Dusty Claus.

Steve Philips of Fanhouse.com is stating that Arthur Rhodes and the Texas Rangers have agreed to a one-year deal. No financial information was disclosed in the post. The lefty reliever had spent the past two seasons in Cincinnati after singing a two-year deal previous to the 2009 campaign. Sir Arthur was selected to his first All-Star Game in 2010. Curious, this is.